Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was a playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years, he was also a Member of Parliament aligned with the British Whig Party. Such was the esteem he was held in by his contemporaries when he died that he was buried at Westminister Abbey.
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